Oct
28
The Cell Phone Market
Posted by: coltonfoster | October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Being in the market for a new phone, I have had the chance to research a number of different Canadian cellphone carriers and compare their various offerings. Following the lecture today where we talked about the Product Life Cycle and whether markets are introducing products, growing, mature or declining; I thought about these companies that […]
Oct
22
Marketing Ethics
Posted by: coltonfoster | October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is the ad I chose to do my COMM 299 marketing ethics speech on. The ad is by a public health organization called Truth. This ad comes from the “do you have what it takes to be a tobacco exec?” campaign. The labels on the jars read “an award winning smile” and “a brain […]
Oct
14
Wall Street 2
Posted by: coltonfoster | October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
After recently seeing Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, I began thinking about who the target audience was for this movie. First of all I would like to say that it was a decently entertaining movie, but hardly an epic film by any stretch of the imagination. So while not as good as its counterpart from […]
Oct
7
Mad Men
Posted by: coltonfoster | October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Recently I have been watching AMC’s Mad Men quite and bit and it has made me think a lot about COMM 296. For those of you who don’t know, Mad Men is a show centering on the main character Don Draper who works at a New York ad agency. Nearly every episode the team at […]